Es-en-ce/Little Shell Portrait

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Handwritten in white ink on front of print: "ES-SENCE OR LITTLE SHELL 1001 CHIPPEWAY." Man, Little Shell, in part costume. Chippewa. Turtle Mountian. Dakota Territory.

People: 
Es-en-ce, Little Shell
Location Description: 

Washington, DC

Protocol: 
Ziibiwing Center Public Access
Community: 
Ziibiwing Center
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
North Dakota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1874
Creator: 
Bell, Charles Milton
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
Ziibiwing Center
Identifier: 
N34907
Type: 
negitive
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Seated studio portrait of the man Es-en-ce, or Little Shell, or Ais-Aince (Little Clam), or Ayabe-Way-We-Tung (He Who Rests On His Way), wearing a feather in his hair, two side braids with metal beads, a beaded necklace, a wide embroidered or beaded band and what appears to be an Abraham Lincoln Peace Medal at his neck, a dark checkered shirt, and a dark blanket wrapped around his lower body. He is holding a simple pipe tomahawk with thick wooden stem in his lap. Member of an 1874 Delegation.

People: 
Es-en-ce, Little Shell
Location Description: 

Washington, DC

Title: 
ES-SENCE OR LITTLE SHELL 1001 CHIPPEWAY
Protocol: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Public Access
Community: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
North Dakota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1874
Creator: 
Bell, Charles Milton
Rights: 
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier: 
N34907
Type: 
negitive